Chapter 763. providing for the establishment of certain light-houses and fog-signals, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 763.— An Act providing for the establishment of certain light-houses and fog-signals, and for other purposes.July 10, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Light-house and fog-signals established. That there be established a light-house and fog-signal, together or on separate sites, as may be found most advantageous, at or near San Litis Obispo, at the entrance to Port Harford, San Luis Obispo Hay, California.
The entire cost of which shall not exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars; also that there be,established at or near Point Sur, on the seacoast of California, a light-house and fog-signal station, the entire cost of which shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars; also that a light-house and fog-signal be established on Castle Hill, Rhode Island, at the entrance to Newport Harbor, under the direction of the Light-House Board: *Provided*, That a suitable site for the light house can be obtained without expense to the Government, upon terms and conditions to be agreed upon by said Board with the owner of the land at Castle Hill: *Provided*, The entire cost of the structure shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars; also that there be established above Pulpit Point, Whitehall Narrows, New York, a light to guide, vessels through said narrows, the cost of which shall not exceed the sum of two hundred dollars; also that a light be established on the bridge between New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts, the entire cost of which shall not exceed the sum of two hundred dollars; also that a light-house and fog-signal be established on one of the Gull Rocks, opposite the United States Naval Training School, in Upper Newport Harbor;
Rhode Island, the entire cost of which shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars; also that there be established and erected a light-house on Crabtree’s Ledge (so called), between Bean Island and the mainland of Crabtree’s Neck, in Frenchman’s Bay, Hancock County, Maine, the cost of which shall not exceed the sum of twenty five thousand dollars; also that there be established a lighthouse and fog signal at or near Deer Island, in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, the cost of which shall not exceed the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars; also that there, be established a light-house at or near Lubec Narrows, Maine, the cost of which shall not exceed the sum of forty thousand dollars; also that there be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not. otherwise appropriated, two thousand dollars for the purchase of a right of way from Cape Orford Light Station to the town of Cape Orford, Oregon; also that there be established a light house at Two Harbors, Minnesota, the cost of which shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars; also that there be established a light-house on Gould Island, Narragansett Bay, State of Rhode Island, the cost of which shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars; also that there be established a light-station at or near North Point, to take the place of the old one near Milwaukee, on Milwaukee Bay, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, the cost of which shall not exceed the sum of fifteen thousand dollars; also for the purchase of a site and the construction FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 762, 763. 1886. 143 of a first-order coast light house, at Cape Meares, Tillamook Bay, Oregon, the cost of which shall not exceed the sum of sixty thousand dollars; also that the appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars made by theVol. 23, p 197. act of Congress approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, “for removing IheCroatan Light-House to a point where it will be of more value to navigators,” be made available for I he erection of a new light-house at the proposed point.
Approved, July 10, 1886.